The Storey Sisters

I listened to Alice Hoffman's book, The Storey Sisters on my trip to the north shore last week.  This book is about a single mother and her three daughters.  The three girls are all beautiful with long black hair but have very different personalities.  Mom is very protective but a stranger intrudes into their lives and changes course for all four of them even though only two of the sisters meet the stranger.  After that event, the sisters escape by creating an alternate world called Arnelle and another language, Arnish.  Alice Hoffman often has a little magic in her stories and this book is no exception.  Evil spirits are dispelled by keeping jars of salt near the windows and hanging flypaper to catch black moths.  This book kept my attention the entire time.  If it were made into a movie, I think the eldest sister should be played by Liv Tyler.